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Treat Yourself to Six Recent SFF Works in Translation
There’s plenty of compelling science fiction, fantasy, and genre-defying fiction being written and published in English; of that there is no doubt. But there’s even more work being written in these...
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Tenet Feels Like Christopher Nolan at His Most Meta
Early on in Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, a character known only as the Protagonist (John David Washington) faces the end of his life on a set of train tracks. While his “resurrection” will be brought...
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Read the First Two Chapters From Rise of the Red Hand
A streetrat turned revolutionary and the disillusioned hacker son of a politician try to take down a ruthlessly technocratic government that sacrifices its poorest citizens to build its utopia… We’re...
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Why Is the Star Wars Universe Full of Megafauna?
Whilst watching an episode of The Mandalorian, I noticed something in the background that was odd enough that I should have taken note of it ages ago: the Star Wars universe sure has a lot of large...
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Terry Pratchett Book Club: Wyrd Sisters, Part IV
The play’s the thing, or that’s what the Bard says anyhow. (Or it might be the pay, apparently.) So we should probably get back to it in our read of Wyrd Sisters. Summary Hwel is trying to write his...
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“All of us here have killed someone”— The New Mutants
Starting in August 2017, Keith R.A. DeCandido took a weekly look at every live-action movie based on a superhero comic in the weekly 4-Color to 35-Millimeter: The Great Superhero Movie Rewatch. He...
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The Stand Needs More Reality in Its Horror: Episode One, “The End”
I’ll admit, when I read The Stand back in high school I didn’t expect to live through it years later. Hell, when I volunteered to review CBS’ adaptation the pandemic hadn’t hit yet. As a result, my...
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The Mandalorian Says Farewell in Chapter Sixteen, “The Rescue”
Before I begin—there’s a tag scene on this puppy, and it’s kind of important. If you missed it, now’s your chance to run back and watch because I don’t want to spoil the post-credit reveal. Spoilers...
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Six Intergalactic Holiday Specials for a Very Cosmic Christmas
Lots of shows decide they need a little Christmas come December, but they’re not quite sure how to do it. Do you talk about the big Jesus-shaped elephant in the room? Do you just focus on Santa? Do...
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Eight Amazing Novels About Female Superheroes
Superheroes are inescapable on the big screen, and they’ve dominated comics for more than half a century. But what about those of us who just can’t get enough prose? Where’s the long-form fiction...
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The Polar Express and What It Means to Believe
It’s sappy holiday story time! Are you ready? I’m ready… So, Christmas at my house has always been a decidedly secular affair. In that way, I’m no different from a good portion of North America. My...
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Star Trek: Voyager Rewatch: “Living Witness”
“Living Witness” Written by Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky and Bryan Fuller Directed by Tim Russ Season 4, Episode 23 Production episode 191 Original air date: April 29, 1998 Stardate: n/a Captain’s...
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Various Fantasy Creatures Keep Inviting Me Over for Tea
There is a certain subset of fantasy creatures that are unfailingly polite. Whenever I stumble into their worlds, they break out the honeycakes and put a kettle on. But maybe I don’t want to have to...
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All the Whos Down in Whoville Are (Probably) Aliens
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!—both the original 1957 picture book and the 1966 cartoon version—showcase Theodor Geisel at possibly the tippy-top of his powers. But just what are the Whos down in...
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Ranking Every Superhero Origin Movie I Could Remember
We’re about two decades into an era that history will remember as That Time Humans Demanded At Least Four Comic Book Movies A Year. (I’m guessing this era will be remembered for other things, too, but...
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Always Winter, But Never Christmas: Santa Claus in Narnia
Well, my friends, it is winter here where I live and Christmas is well on its way. The trees are up (we have two, a tradition that started because my family fought over which one we should cut down),...
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The Strange Experience of Reading a Book Series in the Wrong Order
We live in a glorious age when books are a click away. It may now seem incomprehensible that one might be forced to read a series of books out of order. Yet, in a dark age not so long ago, when we (and...
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Books That Grab You
I’ve written here before about the quality of “I-want-to-read-it-osity” that some books have, a hard to define but easy to see quality which I am going to refer to as “grabbyness.” There are books you...
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The Real Magic of Santa Claus
What does Santa Claus represent? Christmas is a fascinating amalgam of a holiday made up of a great big storm of European traditions, so there is obviously more than one answer to this question. But...
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Eight of Our Favorite In-Universe Superfans
It’s safe to assume that if you’re here on this site you’re a huge fan of something. Maybe it’s Brandon Sanderson’s writing, or V.E. Schwab’s. Maybe it’s DC Comics, or Marvel’s Netflix shows. Maybe...
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